Der vorliegende Beitrag untersucht die Export- und Importbeteiligung niedersächsischer Industrieunternehmen im Zeitraum … des Umsatzsteuerstatistikpanels ist es dabei nicht nur möglich Auskunft über die Verbreitung von Export- und … Importaktivitäten zu geben, sondern auch die Dynamik der Export- und Importbeteiligung auf Unternehmensebene zu betrachten. In 2006 …

into export markets is found. There is no evidence for the hypothesis that plants which start to export perform better in … least in part the result of a market driven selection process in which those export starters that have low productivity at … time continue to export. -- Exports ; productivity ; micro data ; Germany …

Export-sales ratio , labour productivity , continuous treatment , dose-response function … reason for this result is that most previous studies are restricted to analysing the relationship between a firm's export … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing …

productive than firms that continue to export in t. (H2) Firms that start to export in year t are less productive than firms that … export both in year t-1 and in year t. (H3) Firms from a cohort of export starters that still export in the last year of the … panel were more productive in the start year than firms from the same cohort that stopped to export in between. While …

line with theoretical considerations and comparable results reported for a small number of other countries we report a … negative impact of credit constraints on both the number of goods exported and the number of export destination countries that …

theoretical predictions we find that foreign-owned firms do export more goods to more countries after controlling for firm size …

total sales, or export participation over time, or the number of goods exported, or the number of countries exported to …. This paper documents that low-productive exporters are competitive because they export high-quality goods. The quality of …